Corset-cover.



No. 603,014. Pafmed nec. 4, |900. K. A. DEERING.

CBSET COVER.

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KATHERINE A. DEERING, OF FERNANDO, CALIFORNIA.

CORSET-COVER.

SIECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 4663,014, dated December 4, 1900.

Application filed August 8, 1900. Serial No. 26,294. (No model.)

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Beit known that I, KATHERINE A. DEERTNG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fernando, in the county of Los Angeles, State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Corset-Covers, of which the following is a specication.

My invention relates to a light garment to be worn over the ordinary ladys corset to protect the same from becoming soiled; and the objects thereof are to provide a corsetcover of light material which can be laundered and which will act as a bust-distender where necessary above the point where the bust distention of the corset proper ceases, and thereby give to the upper portion of the bust a fullness not attained by the use of the corset alone, and which, if desired, may be worn without a corset and will support the bust, as well as act as a bust-distender when the natural fullness thereof is lacking.

Heretofore the corset-covers in use usually consist of an outer covering for the corset merely designed to protect the same from becoming soiled and not adapted to beautify the form and not adapted to be worn separate from the corset. In my corset-cover I have remedied these defects and have produced a garment that will protect the corsetfrom becoming soiled and at the same time will round out the bust where deficient of natural fullness, and thereby add to the beauty of the female figure. the garment described herein, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, in Which- Figure lis a perspective view of a sleeveless corset-cover on the wearer, so much of the person only being shown as will serve to illustrate my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail plan view of the bust-covering portion of my corset-cover.

A waist A of light washable goods, either with or without sleeves, adapted to be worn over the corset, is fitted to the wearer in the usual manner, except that the front thereof is provided with two bust-distending fronts Y B, one on each side of the medianline, which is made and fitted in as follows: The waist is cut out from a point on the shoulder where in dotted lines, Fig. 2.

I accomplish these objects by l it curves over toward the back and near the junction of the arm with the shoulder, thence running down by nearly astraight line to just below the bust-line, thence nearly straight across to meet a similar line drawn downward from a like point on the other shoulder, thence up said line to the point on the shoulder. From these shoulder-points, by slightly-cu rved lines, as shown at a., b, and c, Fig. l, the waist is cut to the median line. In each side of this opening is fitted a bustdistending front B. (Shown in detail in Fig. 2.) The .top line of the bust-front in its unmanufactured form is irregular, as shown, and is adapted to be folded into two vertical plaits d c, as shown Plait d is folded toward the front and plait e is folded toward the back. The bottom part is adapted to be folded into two vertical box-plaits of about equal size, as shown in dotted lines.. These plaits give a transverse fullness to the central portion of the front. The upper plaits and the two outside lower plaits are stitched, so as to form pockets for the reception of the ends of the whalebones g or other distending-stays. (Shown in dotted lines in Fig. l.) These stays pass through centrally-disposed loops g', affixed to the front. Between the upper and lower plaits are transverse pockets h for the reception of transverse stays. The front edge of front B is turned under on the dotted line j and is stitched down to form a seam, except at and between the stay-pockets h, Where the turned-over part is loose,

claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters- Patent, is,-

As a new article of manufacture, the herein-described corset-cover A, having the bustdistending fronts B, said fronts having vertical plaits in the upper and lower portions thereof, adapted to fo'rnn vertical stay-pockets, and provide central transverse fullness to the front, and also transverse stay-poekets, closed at the back side, the front side being folded over, as described, and a transverse plait, vcentrally disposed, in the back part thereof, adapted to provide vertical fullness tothe central portion of said front.

In Witness that claim the foregoing have hereunto subscribed my name this 245th day xo of July, 1900, at Los Angeles, California.

KATHERINE A. DEERING.

Witnesses:

G. E. HARPHAM, MATTIE MCGINNIS. 

